A history of computing flamewars—in handy graph form!

"Google's wonderful new Ngram Viewer allows Internet users to search a huge corpus of scanned books from 1800 to 2008, searching them by word and graphing the results over time. This is far more awesome than it sounds, because it allows us to chart the history of all sorts of things. And, of course, to settle bar bets. For instance: which is superior, Mac or PC? And how would we decide? Thanks to Google, we have at least one new metric for these kinds of ridiculous arguments. Here it is:" | more